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E8 Market Futures
TradeDay100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US
2nd Floor, 412 S. Wells, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
Dylan Elchami
James Thorpe
United States
United States
2021
2020
100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US
2nd Floor, 412 S. Wells, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
Dylan Elchami
James Thorpe
United States
United States
2021
2020
E8 charges no payout fee. WorkMarket or Rise may charge a processing fee depending on the selected withdrawal method.
- US Wire Transfer: Free
- International Wire Transfer: $15/withdrawal
- Crypto L1: $2.5/withdrawal + estimated gas fees
- Crypto L2: Free
- Signature Futures: on demand once all payout requirements are met.
- Zero Starter and Zero Max: daily, minimum $100.
Day-one payouts on Quick Pay (no buffer). Requests submitted before 17:30 CT processed within 24 hours on business days. No frequency limit.
E8 Signature Futures
| Payout | $25K | $50K | $100K | $150K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st–2nd | $1,000 | $1,250 | $2,250 | $3,250 |
| 3rd–4th | $1,250 | $2,250 | $3,250 | $4,250 |
| 5th | $1,500 | $3,250 | $4,250 | $5,250 |
E8 Zero Starter
- $50K: $1,000
- $100K: $1,600
- $200K: $2,100
E8 Zero Max
- $50K: $3,000
- $100K: $5,000
- $200K: $7,000
Signature Futures and Zero allow a maximum of 5 payouts per account; after the fifth, the account closes and a free Challenge of the same size is issued.
Fast Pass Funded Sim maximum per request: $1,500 (50K), $1,875 (100K), $2,250 (150K).
$100
$250 minimum per payout request.
Payouts require successful onboarding and KYC with WorkMarket or Rise. If neither provider accepts the trader, E8 cannot process the payout.
E8 charges no payout fee. WorkMarket or Rise may charge a processing fee depending on the selected withdrawal method.
- US Wire Transfer: Free
- International Wire Transfer: $15/withdrawal
- Crypto L1: $2.5/withdrawal + estimated gas fees
- Crypto L2: Free
- Signature Futures: on demand once all payout requirements are met.
- Zero Starter and Zero Max: daily, minimum $100.
Day-one payouts on Quick Pay (no buffer). Requests submitted before 17:30 CT processed within 24 hours on business days. No frequency limit.
E8 Signature Futures
| Payout | $25K | $50K | $100K | $150K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st–2nd | $1,000 | $1,250 | $2,250 | $3,250 |
| 3rd–4th | $1,250 | $2,250 | $3,250 | $4,250 |
| 5th | $1,500 | $3,250 | $4,250 | $5,250 |
E8 Zero Starter
- $50K: $1,000
- $100K: $1,600
- $200K: $2,100
E8 Zero Max
- $50K: $3,000
- $100K: $5,000
- $200K: $7,000
Signature Futures and Zero allow a maximum of 5 payouts per account; after the fifth, the account closes and a free Challenge of the same size is issued.
Fast Pass Funded Sim maximum per request: $1,500 (50K), $1,875 (100K), $2,250 (150K).
$100
$250 minimum per payout request.
Payouts require successful onboarding and KYC with WorkMarket or Rise. If neither provider accepts the trader, E8 cannot process the payout.
After an account fails, a 10% discount is available for 7 days to retry the same account size and settings.
Available on current plans. See challenges for reset price.
EOD Dynamic Drawdown based on the highest end-of-day balance. Intraday equity does not move it. It locks permanently at the initial balance level.
Two drawdown types available, both Trailing Maximum Drawdown:
Intraday TMD
Calculated in real time from unrealized profits during the session.
End of Day TMD
Calculated from realized profits at end of day (16:00 CT close). Follows account growth until frozen at the initial balance.
Funded Sim drawdown type matches the evaluation type purchased.
- Signature Futures: 80%.
- Zero Starter/Max: 80% base; 100% can be selected at checkout.
Quick Pay Funded Sim
- 80% trader / 20% TradeDay above $4,000 gross profit
- 50% trader / 50% TradeDay below $4,000 gross profit
- Split evaluated per account
Fast Pass Funded Sim
- 80% trader / 20% TradeDay
Funded Live
- 90% trader / 10% TradeDay
- Signature Challenge: none.
- Signature Performance: 2% Daily Pause (soft breach; trading resumes the next day).
- Zero Challenge and Performance: none.
- Challenge stage: unlimited accounts.
- Signature Futures: up to 5 active Performance accounts.
- Zero Starter/Max: up to 3 active Performance accounts. Limits apply per household.
Up to 10 Evaluation accounts and 5 Funded Sim accounts simultaneously per trader. Up to 5 active Funded Live accounts per trader. Multiple Funded Sim accounts allowed. Single-member US LLC allowed. Multi-member LLC, S-corps and C-corps not allowed.
Unlimited, but the account closes after 7 days of inactivity.
Unlimited
- Signature Futures: can pass in 1 day.
- Zero Starter/Max: earliest pass in 3 days because of the 40% Best Day rule.
- Quick Pay: 5 trading days minimum (non-consecutive).
- Fast Pass: no minimum trading days.
No activation fee or recurring subscription.
No activation fee on TradeDay 2.0.
- Signature: 5 profitable days between payouts after the first payout; a profitable day requires at least 0.3% realized profit.
- Zero Starter/Max: no minimum profitable days in Performance.
Fast Pass Funded Sim: 5 profitable days per payout; $150/$200/$250 minimum daily profit on 50K/100K/150K.
One-time fee. No subscription.
Monthly subscription. See challenges for current list prices and promotions for active discounts.
After an account fails, a 10% discount is available for 7 days to retry the same account size and settings.
Available on current plans. See challenges for reset price.
EOD Dynamic Drawdown based on the highest end-of-day balance. Intraday equity does not move it. It locks permanently at the initial balance level.
Two drawdown types available, both Trailing Maximum Drawdown:
Intraday TMD
Calculated in real time from unrealized profits during the session.
End of Day TMD
Calculated from realized profits at end of day (16:00 CT close). Follows account growth until frozen at the initial balance.
Funded Sim drawdown type matches the evaluation type purchased.
- Signature Futures: 80%.
- Zero Starter/Max: 80% base; 100% can be selected at checkout.
Quick Pay Funded Sim
- 80% trader / 20% TradeDay above $4,000 gross profit
- 50% trader / 50% TradeDay below $4,000 gross profit
- Split evaluated per account
Fast Pass Funded Sim
- 80% trader / 20% TradeDay
Funded Live
- 90% trader / 10% TradeDay
- Signature Challenge: none.
- Signature Performance: 2% Daily Pause (soft breach; trading resumes the next day).
- Zero Challenge and Performance: none.
- Challenge stage: unlimited accounts.
- Signature Futures: up to 5 active Performance accounts.
- Zero Starter/Max: up to 3 active Performance accounts. Limits apply per household.
Up to 10 Evaluation accounts and 5 Funded Sim accounts simultaneously per trader. Up to 5 active Funded Live accounts per trader. Multiple Funded Sim accounts allowed. Single-member US LLC allowed. Multi-member LLC, S-corps and C-corps not allowed.
Unlimited, but the account closes after 7 days of inactivity.
Unlimited
- Signature Futures: can pass in 1 day.
- Zero Starter/Max: earliest pass in 3 days because of the 40% Best Day rule.
- Quick Pay: 5 trading days minimum (non-consecutive).
- Fast Pass: no minimum trading days.
No activation fee or recurring subscription.
No activation fee on TradeDay 2.0.
- Signature: 5 profitable days between payouts after the first payout; a profitable day requires at least 0.3% realized profit.
- Zero Starter/Max: no minimum profitable days in Performance.
Fast Pass Funded Sim: 5 profitable days per payout; $150/$200/$250 minimum daily profit on 50K/100K/150K.
One-time fee. No subscription.
Monthly subscription. See challenges for current list prices and promotions for active discounts.
TradeDay does not charge inactivity fees. However, Tradovate archives the account after 1 month without login.
- Exploiting gaps, illiquid markets, pricing errors or slow data feeds
- Semi-automated or fully automated trading, bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades/day
- Trading within 2% of a CME product lock limit
- Irresponsible or all-or-nothing trading
- Hedging across accounts or users
- Tick scalping where less than 50% of profit comes from trades held at least 10 seconds
- Trading anything other than the front-month contract
- Account rolling and strategies that are not reproducible in real markets
- Using bots/ATS purchased from third parties
- Systems generating >200 trades in a day
- Strategies trading in few seconds to capture only a few ticks
- Attempting to capture queue position advantage by playing with sim engine
- Spoofing and layering (per CME Group rules)
- Order splitting (multiple limit orders at same price simultaneously)
- Trading in illiquid markets to benefit from missed fills
- Exploiting lack of slippage in simulation (e.g., bracket orders in data releases)
- Trading outside best bid/offer
- Using external or slow data feed
- High-frequency trading or short-term trading
- Simultaneous opposite positions between accounts
- Multiple registrations with different names/emails
- Using VPN or VPS to mask location
- Hedging: Prohibited (trading long in one account and short in another for same product)
- Trading within 2% of price limit (Funded Live only, loss of account)
- Microscalping (positions held <5-10 seconds dominating profit)
- Trading Tier 1 news/data releases (2 min before/after, auto-liquidation)
TradeDay does not charge inactivity fees. However, Tradovate archives the account after 1 month without login.
- Exploiting gaps, illiquid markets, pricing errors or slow data feeds
- Semi-automated or fully automated trading, bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades/day
- Trading within 2% of a CME product lock limit
- Irresponsible or all-or-nothing trading
- Hedging across accounts or users
- Tick scalping where less than 50% of profit comes from trades held at least 10 seconds
- Trading anything other than the front-month contract
- Account rolling and strategies that are not reproducible in real markets
- Using bots/ATS purchased from third parties
- Systems generating >200 trades in a day
- Strategies trading in few seconds to capture only a few ticks
- Attempting to capture queue position advantage by playing with sim engine
- Spoofing and layering (per CME Group rules)
- Order splitting (multiple limit orders at same price simultaneously)
- Trading in illiquid markets to benefit from missed fills
- Exploiting lack of slippage in simulation (e.g., bracket orders in data releases)
- Trading outside best bid/offer
- Using external or slow data feed
- High-frequency trading or short-term trading
- Simultaneous opposite positions between accounts
- Multiple registrations with different names/emails
- Using VPN or VPS to mask location
- Hedging: Prohibited (trading long in one account and short in another for same product)
- Trading within 2% of price limit (Funded Live only, loss of account)
- Microscalping (positions held <5-10 seconds dominating profit)
- Trading Tier 1 news/data releases (2 min before/after, auto-liquidation)
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